[BlackRazor]

I doubt their "historically the most accurate" polls have been conducted via mail.

To my knowledge, the Columbus Dispatch has always conducted their polls via mail.

[delapaz]

Guys what this poll really tells us is, of the population likely to fill out a survey and mail it back, there are an equal number of Bush and Kerry supporters. This is much different than a telephone survey where there is much less action required on the part of the respondent (just that they be home and answer the phone which is hard enough).

So anyway, this poll does tell us a lot of things.

-More women than men filled out the survey. That sounds about right.

-Very few minorities filled out the survey, they very much underperformed the general population. Possible ambivalence in the minority vote?

-Did you know that 12% of the state population makes more than $90k per year? Neither did I. Either that or the top income earners self-selected to a very high degree, which is exactly what a social scientist would expect I bet.

- Issue 1 (gay marriage) wins the white vote by 62% but the Black vote by 70% wow! This one I believe but the sample of black voters is way too small (194) to be sure of anything on the minority vote.

-Ok now this is getting silly, If this is a generic sample of the Ohio population then 15% of Ohioans have a post-graduate degree. which is double what the census says.

I think I've made the point that this poll is useless for predicting who Ohio will vote for but makes for some great entertainment for amateur demographers.